Dr Kamal said the biggest contribution of formalin-infected politics is that neutral persons are being removed from different institutions.

He said: “In formalin-infected politics, they think party is the `big zamindar’ and that’s why they don’t want to transfer power.”

Columnist ABM Musa said country’s politics has been mixed with formalin. “The new generation will free the country’s politics of formalin and restore the glorious politics of the past.”

He hoped that Dr Kamal Hossain and other like-minded people will be able to free the country’s politics from its current malaise.

He said: “When I see people like Dr Kamal Hossain, Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury, Mahmudur Rahman Manna and Prof Abu Sayeed together, I think of them like mobile court magistrates… this mobile court capable of freeing the country’s politics from formalin.”

Musa also said politics has now become a profession; rather than a means to serve the people. “We will make politics service-oriented.”